Notices.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1914.
WILLIAM BRIGGS & SONS, LTD.,
DUNDEE..
Notites
"O.K."
SAUCE.
BITUMINOUS PAINT and "Gold Seal" Worcester Sauce.
ENAMEL
THE WORLD'S BEST AND CHEAPEST. ANTI-CORROSIVE FOR IRON AND STEEL. Used on the Forth and Tay Bridges.
OREGON PINE
DODWELL & CO. LTD
SOLE AGENTS.
LUMBER.
LARGE STOCK OF ALL SIZES ON HAND.
UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD. CONTRACTORS TO HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY.
"O.K."-Pickle s.
Solo Agents for Hongkong & South China,
ALDERTON
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
Rotices
LIVER AIDS.
OUR. CONTEMPORARIES.
Daily Press.
PODOPHYLLIN & TARAXACUM PILLS that if the Referendums test Ls
KEEP THE LIVER ACTIVE & THE -SYSTEM FREE FROM WASTE MÄTTER,
THE VICTORIA DISPENSARY.
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CLEAR, SHIP.
POST,
HONGKONG.
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Wotels
HONGKONG HOTEL
A LA CARTE GRILL ROOM. Now Open.
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager
'GRAND HOTEL.
dongkrak. 2011.
Telephone No. 41
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
Goneral Manager.
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,
THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.
(ESTABLISHED 1823)
This old-established and under all the best, and mode sa varying ciscumstaries,
For prospectus and
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PETROLL
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Sn wued Company issuus policies pains of Life Assurance to meet
noply to
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AHN.
BEAUTIFIES, STRENGTHENS,
AND
INCREASES THE HAIR.
Obtainable:-All Dispen- saries. "Respectable Stores
Wholesale.
MELCHERS & Co.
OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE
SOLE AGENTS
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA Hongkong, Juno 11th, 1913,
ASTHMA
CAN Be Cured.
TEL ADDRESS" COMFORT "
:
Central Position: Larga Alry Rooms; Hot, Cold and Shower Baths: Electric Light and Fans Troughout: Largo Comfortable Lounge: Private and Public Bars; Billiard Rooms. HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS. Monthly Rates for Tiffin and Dinner. SPECIAL DINNERS AT SHORT NOTICE. CUISINE Familles On Application.
ENTIRELY UNDER EUROPEAN SUPERVISION. Special Rates For Married
"The Grand Hotel orchestra will play soleations during tiffin and dinner and at intervals during the day."
Tel. No. 197,
F. REICHMANN,
KING
AT
EDWARD
PROPRIETOR.
HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION. Electric Trams Pass Batrance,
Telephones on All Floors.
One Minute's Walk from Ferry.
Electric Lifts, Fans and Lighting. European Baths and Sanitary Fittings. Hot and Cold Water System Throughout,
Best of Food and Service, Hotel Launch meets All Steamers.
Telophic Address: "VICTORIA"
R. H. NORTH, Manager.
THE CARLTON HOTEL.
PERFECT SANITATION.
Tel 373.1
High Class Accomodation for Families at Moderate Prices; Those desiring Economy combined with Comfort, Quiet and a Most Refined Home, Free from Household Annoyances, should inspect these Residential Quarters. -
Rooms:
Luxuriously furnished Lounge, Drawing, Reading & Writing
Under Personal Management of.
O. E. OWEN, Proprietor. ROYAL GEORGE HOTEL, KOWLOON.
THEN why be half suffocated.dent ut a Cosperent and perines Manager
and sit up all night cough. ing and gasping for breath when & SINGLE dose of
NOBBS' ASTHMA GURE
will give you certain, prompt
This Hotel has been thoroughly Renovated and 'h now well furnished and it is unter the manage A new Privat, B., Pravate Sating Rasms and ♫ niit Rean have been specially fitted aps its tour in Beder, to me the wishes of Customers who prefer Quieturens antrl Cufort.
Cataing to Private Partits. Plusic Panies, etc, vali be managed by ap ying to Mr. Newton, the Manager.
H. RUTTONJEE, Proprietor.
BUTTER
relief and ensure a good night's Arrived, fresh Shipment, Cuaranteed Ist Grade by the Australian
rest? This, the only genuino cure
for Asthma, discovered by Mr.
NOBBS, a qualified Chemist, and
a sufferer for many years, will, i!
taken when hecessary, pffect & radical cure of this arstwhile in- curable malady.
Government. Packed Expressly for the
ALEXANDRA CAFE.
PRICE 70 CTS. PER LB.
Obtainable at Messrs. A. S. Grand Hotel de l'Europe, Singapore.
WATSON & Co., Ltd. and all Chemists and Patent Medicine
endors.
Price $2.50 per bottle.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND, CEMENT
BEST SITUATED HOTEL IN TOWN.
EVERY ROOM HAS A BATH-ROOM; DRESSING ROOM ATTACHED.
MOST UP TO DATE SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS.
Cable Address "TOR KOBE"
Under the New Management of
F. P. BAUR, late SAVOY HOTEL, LONDON.
32, QUEEN'S ROAD. CENTRAL.
The Irish Questi n.. It is important to bear in mind accapted and the result were adverse to Home Rule the Gov ernment-whether Liberal or Unionist would still be facəd with an "ungovernable Ireland." The latest information regarding the revolt in the Army seems to point to the officers being prepar- ed to do their duty, so far as it; concerns the protection of Gov-
EXPRESS" TO ANY ADDRESS ernment property. We sincerely
HONGKONG PARCEL EXPRESS
& STORAGE CO.
STORE,
INSURE.
We Forward to All Parts of the World Telephone 1208
hope they may never be called upon to do more than this and CARRY.
when what is required of the Army is defined in this way and TRANSPORT, accepted we think events will ehapa their courie to a settlement on the basis of the scheme out- lined in Mr. Asquith's recent speech. The Bill will be paleegd as it stands; Ulster will resist and the Government will meet be difficulty by suspecding its operation in Ulster in the hope that the good results which are exprated to accrue to the rest of Ireland under Home Rule will fe an inducement to Ulster in the coures of a few years to come under the Act. There seems no other way out of the difficulty with any prospect of peaceful
3, Duddell Street.
INSURANCE OF LUGGAGE.
THE EUROPEAN GOODS AND TRAVELLARS LUGGAGE
INSURANCE CO.
undertake the insurance of travellers' luggage in transit by rail and sea or during storage in all parts of the world.
The Insurance covers accident to the means of conveyance Act of God, burglary, criminal attack, fire, sea-water, and con-government in Ireland. tribution to general average.
should appeal to all travellers.
The simple way of insuring and the exceedingly cheap premium
For further particulars and rates apply to the Agents,
SIEMSSEN & CO.
South China Morning Post.
China and the Metric System.
China will undoubtedly some time in the future adopt standarde of weights and measures which will be accopted abroad, and although it seems to be a large order to introduce a change into vast country-the parts of which are remote and the means of communication antiquated,
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co. given the outry legislation
ESTAB
DOW'S
HUNTING
PORT.
1864
DOW'S PORTS.
DOW'S
ROYAL DRY
PORT.
THE BEER THAT IS TAKING
HONGKONG BY STORM.
SAN MIGUEL DRAUGHT
& BOTTLED BEER.
and a period for teaching in the tohools, aided by the adoption of approved standards by Govern- ment departments, the task is by no means impossible of accom plishment. We frequently hear about the unchanging East, but Siam, the Hermit Kingdom-is in process of introducing the metric system proviros by pro vince; Japan is using the decimal system in many of her depart ments, notably the Customs, the Army and in medicine, and itin therefore only a question of time until China obanges her present heterogenous mixture of weights and measures to one which will he uniform and which will be intelligible alike to foreign menu- facturer and Chinese merchant. Then and not till then will Chida experience the many blessings. which resultedegaarad con- tact with the outside world.
China Mar
The Cilsis In Ulster, W Judging by the telegrams, the orisia that has arisen in: Ulster is not without its serious aspect. Of course, if one were to believe all the ramours that are being put into circulation by certain irresponsible conservative organs, one might be inclined to think that a dreadful civil war wore impending. Nothing of the kind. will occur; there will be no eerious fighting of any sort, un' lesa it be some mob rioting, which is probably inevitable. The Government's military. "movements" in Ulater are certainly on a comprehensive sonle, but the recent bellicose attitude of certain Usterites, recklessly urged on, justify the extent of the preparation, The serious aspect of the situation at present ia the fact that certain military officer, apparently more
THE TOR HOTEL, Phone No, 1067 Our Bottled Beer is acknowledged keen as politicians than as col-
LIMITED
KOBE. JAPAN. Under Swiss Management.
Bannomiya.
In Casks of 375 lbs. not. 'In Bage of 250 lbs. net.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. The finest Hotel in Japan, situated on the Hills, amongst the pine
General Managers."
trees. Has a panoramic view, from the Verandah, of the
longkong, 16th August, 1901
LAW &
SONS Shudebaker ON.
3 Daddell St.
Agents.
Inland Sea and Kobe Harbour.
All the Rooms with. Baths attached.
Hotel's own Steam Launch & Motor Cars'meet all Steamers & Trains,
French Chef,
HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN.
PLUNKET'S GAP
The Peak,
· HENRY LUTZ, Manager.
MEE CHEUNG.
ART PHOTOGRAPHER
HONGKONG.
to be Par Excellence, ONCE DRUNK ALWAYS DRUNK
WHOLESALE RETAIL
MICHAEL & Co., Agents.
Old Post Office Building, Pedder St.
“ERICSSON
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Telephone No.
diers, have notified a wish to reaign their commissions. Should they do so, it may be safely pre
dicted that instead of the halo of glory that they probably believe will surround their action, they will unquestionably recsive, and shall merit, the contempt of all right-thinking men of the present day, besides the obloquy of posterity. Saldiets are servants of the Stato, and it is their duty. to obey the orders of the Govern
TELEPHONES. ment, without regard to what Party may be in power, what "question may be at isane,
Every Description of Wall Table & Field Telephone Instru-without-recourse to their private ments, Switches, Protectors, Hand Micros, Fuses, Dry Cells, also opinions or eva without obeying TELEPHONE NO, 1018, Portable Telegraph Instruments and Fire Alarms of Latest Pattern the dictates of their conscience
ngar the Tram Terminus Tel. 56. For Terms apply to the
MANAGE
are now to be had.
Ja
From STOCK. MA
Developing, Printing & Enlarging Hongkong, 18th July, 19
Through our Agents for Hongkong & South China
ARTHUR NILSSON & CO.
For a good, solid meal Carte or Table D'Hote Wines & Liquors of tho ALEXANDRA CATE